ReviewHealth information and libraries journal2018
The development of search filters for adverse effects of surgical interventions in medline and Embase.
Review in Health information and libraries journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Search strategies to identify observational studies in MEDLINE and Embase.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Improving the translation of search strategies using the Polyglot Search Translator: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2020Trial
- Development and validation of search hedges for Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) populations in Ovid MEDLINE and Ovid APA PsycInfo.PloS one · 2026Article
- Validation of an interprofessional education search strategy in PubMed to optimize IPE literature searching.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2024Article
- Meeting a need: development and validation of PubMed search filters for immigrant populations.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2024Article
- Safety and adherence of pressure garment therapy in children with upper limb unilateral cerebral palsy. Results from a randomized clinical trial ancillary analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Development and validation of search filters to identify articles on deprescribing in Medline and Embase.BMC medical research methodology · 2022Article
- Development of an efficient search filter to retrieve systematic reviews from PubMed.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2021Article
- Validation of a search strategy for randomized clinical trials related to periodontitis.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundSearch filter development for adverse effects has tended to focus on retrieving studies of drug interventions. However, a different approach is required for surgical interventions.
objectiveTo develop and validate search filters for medline and Embase for the adverse effects of surgical interventions.
methodsSystematic reviews of surgical interventions where the primary focus was to evaluate adverse effect(s) were sought. The included studies within these reviews were divided randomly into a development set, evaluation set and validation set. Using word frequency analysis we constructed a sensitivity maximising search strategy and this was tested in the evaluation and validation set.
resultsThree hundred and fifty eight papers were included from 19 surgical intervention reviews. Three hundred and fifty two papers were available on medline and 348 were available on Embase. Generic adverse effects search strategies in medline and Embase could achieve approximately 90% relative recall. Recall could be further improved with the addition of specific adverse effects terms to the search strategies.
conclusionWe have derived and validated a novel search filter that has reasonable performance for identifying adverse effects of surgical interventions in medline and Embase. However, we appreciate the limitations of our methods, and recommend further research on larger sample sizes and prospective systematic reviews.
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